Smith v. Brown

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that cases where employees were found acting for wholly personal motives typically have “involved sexual gratification”
• upholding the Government's certification that the defendant was acting within scope of employment where the defendant physically assaulted the plaintiff at a work party as the plaintiff had not sufficiently shown defendant acted on personal motives or animosity
• “[T]here is no viable claim under the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment because ‘the Eighth Amendment applies only to convicted prisoners.’”
• “[T]here is no viable claim under the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment because ‘the Eighth Amendment applies only to convicted prisoners.’”
• “[W]hen a federal employee is injured on the job, FECA provides the exclusive remedy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

1 case in this archive cites this case.

• Ashton v. Al Qaeda Islamic Army (In re Terrorist Attacks On Sept. 11, 2001)
  S.D. Illinois· 2018-03-28· cited 7×

Cites

40 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Graham v. Connor
  Supreme Court· 1989-05-15· cited 16,485×
• United States v. Sherwood
  Supreme Court· 1941-03-31· cited 3,675×
• Ingraham v. Wright
  Supreme Court· 1977-04-19· cited 2,975×
• Natalia Makarova v. United States
  Second Circuit· 2000-01-12· cited 2,790×
• City of Revere v. Massachusetts General Hospital
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-27· cited 1,572×
• Osborn v. Haley
  Supreme Court· 2007-01-22· cited 582×
• Gutierrez De Martinez v. Lamagno
  Supreme Court· 1995-06-14· cited 571×
• Tandon v. Captain's Cove Marina of Bridgeport, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2014-05-19· cited 509×
• Riviello v. Waldron
  New York Court of Appeals· 1979-06-07· cited 476×
• APWU v. Potter
  Second Circuit· 2003-09-15· cited 412×
• Mathirampuzha v. Potter
  Second Circuit· 2008-11-03· cited 340×
• Hui v. Castaneda
  Supreme Court· 2010-05-03· cited 314×
• Lockheed Aircraft Corp. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1983-02-23· cited 259×
• United States v. Navajo Nation
  Supreme Court· 2003-03-04· cited 199×
• Judith M. v. Sisters of Charity Hospital
  New York Court of Appeals· 1999-06-03· cited 178×
• Ira S. Bushey & Sons, Inc. v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1968-06-19· cited 112×
• LeBlanc v. Cleveland
  Second Circuit· 1999-12-09· cited 92×
• Janet H. McHugh v. University of Vermont Christopher Wheeler James P. Alexander and United States of America (u.s. Army), Christopher Wheeler
  Second Circuit· 1992-06-04· cited 77×
• Beresford Williams v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1991-10-10· cited 48×
• Debra IERARDI, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Frank SISCO, Defendant-Appellant
  Second Circuit· 1997-07-17· cited 46×